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'Nakamoto's innovation is real,' says SEC Chair Gary Gensler

by w4llstr33t on 8/3/21, 9:50 PM with 5 comments

• by probe on 8/3/21, 10:26 PM

  If interested, here's the course Gary Gensler taught on "blockchain and money" before becoming SEC chair - https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/sloan-school-of-management/15-s1...

  The last lecture especially gives a sense of how he's thinking through things.

• by mgh2 on 8/4/21, 2:36 AM

  The media can spin his statements either way: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28056559

• by aaron695 on 8/4/21, 12:45 AM

  It's a bit of a clown land

  1636 someone says I think tulips are real and maybe people might like them? Really cutting edge opinions.

  And I know there was no tulips mania, just a few weirdos who paid a lot to be popular. Because tulips were cool and stayed cool.

• by loceng on 8/4/21, 12:49 AM

  Regulatory capture is real.